Live from the moon! How lasers connected us all to NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts on their epic lunar trip

A laser system, previously tested on board the International Space Station, helped to stream video directly from the Artemis 2 mission on its way around the moon.

We have 4 fundamental forces of nature. ‘Quantum gravity’ could help lead us to a mysterious 5th

Scientists think a new framework for quantum gravity could offer clues about a mysterious 5th fundamental force of nature.

‘We were astonished’: Millions of exoplanets could be born near active supermassive black holes

“We were totally amazed when we noticed this mass and size range of planet formation.”

How Japanese scientists sent a real-life Transformer to the moon

An autonomous rolling rover that was able to transform from a sphere into a robot successfully explored a small part of the moon in 2024.

Could the secret to black hole formation be locked away in this record-breaking ancient quasar?

The quasar existed 12.9 billion years ago and shows that supermassive black holes were able to age rapidly in the early universe.

James Webb Space Telescope discovers ‘galaxy-killing’ wind that may explain why some early galaxies lived fast and died young

A “galaxy-killing” wind driven by cosmic mergers may explain why many massive galaxies in the early universe stopped forming stars far earlier than expected, according to new JWST and ALMA observations.

James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence the mysterious ‘little red dots’ are black hole stars

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may be close to solving the mystery of “little red dots” in the early universe.